A Couple Insults I Hope Get Thrown At Me

I’m reading the so far excellent, The Humanness of John Calvin by Richard Stauffer. In the introduction, he speaks about the vitriolic attacks on John Calvin that were launched not long after his death. I think you can tell a good man by the extent to which his opponents have to go to criticize him. Some of the insults are really quite shocking and obviously untrue. Others, are curiously odd.

Take these examples. Secretly, I wonder whether I should aspire to getting insulted in this way. I still don’t know whether they are compliments or insults.

[John Calvin] is ” the author of a religion of the table, the stomach, the fat, the flesh, the kitchen” (Jacques Desmay, vicar-general of the diocese of Rouen)

In [John Calvin], the whole reformation only tendeth to “establish the reign of wine, women and song” (Jacques Desmay, vicar-general of the diocese of Rouen)

Wine, women, and song. Hmm.. I’ve seen worse errors. Would to God that he raises another Docteur de la Kitchen.